Re: Synchronized narration work from the Sync Media Pub CG

Hi,

Thanks for the pointer.

I'm curious why you wouldn't use e.g. WebVTT or another existing markup  
that carries the associations between text and audio renderings.

cheers

Chaals

On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 02:12:26 +0200, Marisa DeMeglio  
<marisa.demeglio@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Chris Needham suggested that I share with you what we’ve been working on  
> in the Synchronized Media for Publications CG - it’s a lightweight JSON  
> format for >representing pre-recorded narration synchronized with HTML,  
> to provide an accessible reading experience. The primary use case is in  
> web publications (we are >involved in the Publishing WG), but it has  
> been designed to live as a standalone “overlay” for HTML documents.  
> Below are some links to the latest drafts.
> And, just to give you an idea of the basic user experience, here are two  
> slightly different proof of concept demos for the sample in our  
> repository:
>
> -  
> https://raw.githack.com/w3c/sync-media-pub/master/samples/single-document/index.html
> -  
> https://raw.githack.com/w3c/sync-media-pub/feature/custom-read-aloud-player/samples/single-document/index.html
> Interested in hearing your thoughts!
> Marisa DeMeglio
> DAISY Consortium
>
>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> From: Marisa DeMeglio <marisa.demeglio@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Drafts and a sample
>> Date: June 8, 2019 at 6:58:13 PM PDT
>> To: W3C Synchronized Multimedia for Publications CG  
>> <public-sync-media-pub@w3.org>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As we discussed at the web publications F2F last month, we have some  
>> drafts up for review:
>> https://w3c.github.io/sync-media-pub/
>>
>> Have a look specifically at the proposed synchronization format:
>> https://w3c.github.io/sync-media-pub/narration.html
>>
>> And how to include it with web publications:
>> https://w3c.github.io/sync-media-pub/packaging.html
>>
>> I’ve extracted the issues from our previous drafts and discussions, and  
>> put them in the tracker:
>> https://github.com/w3c/sync-media-pub/issues
>>
>> I also started putting together a sample and playing around with some  
>> ideas for a simple proof-of-concept for playback:
>> https://github.com/w3c/sync-media-pub/tree/master/samples/single-document
>>
>> (for anyone really interested and wanting to dig in: it needs to be  
>> more clever about how it uses the audio api - the granularity of  
>> timeupdate in the >>browser isn’t very good).
>>
>> Please feel free to comment, propose solutions, and otherwise share  
>> your thoughts.
>> Thanks
>> Marisa
>



-- 
Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/